Hacker News: eMPee584

New comment by eMPee584 in "DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI may arrive by 2029, warns world unprepared"

eMPee584 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:06:43 +0000

Guess that statement will age well... /s

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: elio – A terminal file manager with rich previews"

eMPee584 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:17:24 +0000

Nice look! as a heavy user of ranger I am hooked to its keyboard shortcuts and malleability though.. hoping that one day, the giant patch queue (including some of mine) will get merged. Multi-threading, as implemented in elio, would also help a lot I guess..

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

eMPee584 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:53 +0000

cool but https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm even has remote image support : D

New comment by eMPee584 in "GenCAD"

eMPee584 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:11 +0000

Well visual reasoning is one approach, another is a coding-like approach like this cadquery-based solution https://articraft3d.github.io/ which was also posted here a couple of days ago.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153064 Curious what you (and others) think, they also are collecting a pool of examples including prompt, reasoning log and token cost, quite interesting imho.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"

eMPee584 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:33:47 +0000

Plasma physics (magnetohydrodynamics / turbulance) turned out to be a bigger challenge then expected, but it's not far fetched to assume we would be somewhat further along had the funding been closer to one of the "more ambitious" curves.

Here's them infamous 1976 budget scenarios: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...

New comment by eMPee584 in "GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup"

eMPee584 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:49:08 +0000

KDE's hybrid file / web browser konqueror has had arbitrary tab tiling since 1999 IIRC.. still a gread tool, would just need some love and webextensions support to come back big

New comment by eMPee584 in "Teaching Claude CAD skills. Onshape MCP and visual reasoning tools"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:01:53 +0000

Oh and also https://FluidCAD.io Parametric CAD with JavaScript was posted two weeks ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721997

New comment by eMPee584 in "Teaching Claude CAD skills. Onshape MCP and visual reasoning tools"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:15:06 +0000

This is cool, what about trying build123d against it to compare. And just post again, not easy to make the HN frontpage with that expansive flood of crazy tech news.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Bot-AGI-1 – a robotics benchmark for VLMs"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:58:41 +0000

Great idea. Interesting to see qwen's textual state evaluation for each frame.

Must say though that the keyboard controls didn't work as advertised for me at all, it seemed very borked.

New comment by eMPee584 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

eMPee584 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:05:21 +0000

yes, working on a big END THE MONEY SYSTEM 2030 campaign to get public discussion started about considering the switch to a cooperative commons/resource-based open access economy. open source everything, hack the planet etc. why not make it the singularity of the people

New comment by eMPee584 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

eMPee584 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:56:30 +0000

your assumption being the thugs mugging these protesters take care of the dead bodies, which I doubt

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

eMPee584 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:40:09 +0000

There's another more hidden tool avail: right of the search type bar (images/news/books) there is a "search tools" menu where you can open "all results" and switch it to "verbatim". Often times a good way to see another defunct relict of old, quality google: the empty-result-troll that would once upon a time pull out his fishing rod on click..

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

eMPee584 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:29:43 +0000

before:2024-08 after:2023-06 to the rescue? manual but works, even though on queries for "trending" keywords results will still be flooded with hits that should be filtered..

New comment by eMPee584 in "Music for Programming"

eMPee584 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:18:50 +0000

then you'll adore this "deep progressive techno" mix playlist by artist "Dub Element" with 50 hours of the finest rolling deep pumping oldschool rave techno. Also does d'n'b and dub techno..

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAb7rS-Wvyr0AZdUlgaCg...

New comment by eMPee584 in "Music for Programming"

eMPee584 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:11:25 +0000

awesome for coding! my fav stations with dub techno chan: Mabu Beatz from Germany, Radio Caprice from Russia & Radio Schizoid from India. Last one has an excellent chillout chan as well, even though the track metadata has been half broken for years (UTF16BE BOM ftw)..

https://www.radio-browser.info/search?name=dub%20techno

New comment by eMPee584 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

eMPee584 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:39:25 +0000

f.e.?

New comment by eMPee584 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

eMPee584 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:37:05 +0000

There's a new initiative by some non-google non-apple phone vendors called *UnifiedAttestation* which I hope you will support at some point in the future:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-conso...

New comment by eMPee584 in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

eMPee584 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:03:36 +0000

And that konqueror, KDE's web browser, added in 1999 (and still supports). Also, it's still a great browser, albeit still missing webext support.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

eMPee584 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:00:19 +0000

Konqueror (KDE's original hybrid web browser/file manager) had it first, implemented in 1999 ( https://invent.kde.org/search?group_id=1551&project_id=2544&... ) and it supports arbitrary tiling. Oh by the way, Chrome's rendering engine (called blink nowadays, KHTML once) also originated from KDE.

Implementation details and UX in general is a cluster fsck of sad stories though, can confirm. Try/adapt zen browser maybe?

New comment by eMPee584 in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

eMPee584 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:21:50 +0000

"The profession" actually is a wide variety of trades, not just architects and contractors. Electricians, plumbers etc. where CAD is not yet widely spread. Which hopefully will change in the near future, with open source BIM tool chains, boosted by generative/agentic AI.. Finally, a huge source of confusion and execution hiccups will be overcome.